Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.